Emily Kingery teaches English at a small university in Iowa. Her work appears widely in journals, including Birdcoat Quarterly, CutBank, Eastern Iowa Review, GASHER, Gingerbread House, Midwest Review, New South, Plainsongs, Quarter After Eight, and Trampoline, among others, and she has been both a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, as well as a chapbook finalist at Small Harbor Review and Thirty West Publishing House. Recently, she was named first runner-up in the 2020 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest, judged by Dinty W. Moore, and she received an honorable mention in the 2021 Emerging Woman Poet contest held by Small Orange Journal. She serves on the Board of Directors at the Midwest Writing Center, a non-profit organization that supports writers in the Quad Cities community (mwcqc.org).
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